Secretary

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 44,430 people — is $41,600. Whitfield County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $37,070 for this role, 11% below that figure — about the 38th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 4 of 5 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Whitfield County Board of Education is $29,343, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Secretary is held in 140 Georgia departments. In Whitfield County Board of Education, the median of $29,343 ranks #81 of 140.

This role is reported in 27 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $35,508 ranks #21 of 27. See Secretary across all of Georgia →

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• Assistant Principal 34
• Athletics Personnel 53
• Bookkeeper 26
• Bus Driver 97
• Crossroads Alt School Teacher 5
• Data Clerk 6
• Early Intervention Primary Teacher 33
• Early Intervention Program 4Th and 5Th Grade Teacher 15
• Elementary Counselor 15
• English for Speakers of Other Languages Teacher 71
• Enterprise Technician 6
• General Administrative Secretary/Clerk 7
• Gifted Elementary Teacher P-5 16
• Gifted High 11
• Grade 1 Teacher 49
• Grade 12 Teacher 7
• Grade 2 Teacher 52
• Grade 3 Teacher 48
• Grade 4 Teacher 40
• Grade 5 Teacher 42
• Grade 6 Teacher 38
• Grade 7 Teacher 37
• Grade 8 Teacher 45
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 138
• Grades K-5 Teacher 8
• High School Counselor 14
• Instructional Specialist 25
• Instructional Specialist P-8 27
• Is Personnel - Other Support 6
• Kindergarten Teacher 50
• Librarian/Media Specialist 23
• Library/Media Secretary/Clerk 23
• Lottery Pre-School Teacher 19
• Maintenance Personnel 26
• Member, Board of Education 5
• Middle School Counselor 8
• Middle School Explor Teacher 34
• Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 18
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 99
• Parent Coordinator 8
• Preschool Special Education Teacher 6
• Principal 22
• School Food Service Manager 29
• School Food Service Worker 74
• School Psychologist 11
• School Secretary/Clerk 33
• School Social Worker 8
• Special Education Bus Driver 25
• Special Education Interrelated 117
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 105
• Special Education Paraprofessional - Ages 3 to 5 10
• Speech-Language Pathologist 12
• Substitute Teacher 20
• Teacher of Autistic Students 10
• Teacher of Mild Intellectual 17
• Teacher of Moderate Intellectual 7
• Technology Specialist 11
• Transportation Mechanic 8
• Vocational 30